All research fraud articles
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NewsHow I blew the whistle on a fellow chemist and colleague
Raphaël Lévy talks to Chemistry World about reporting Jolanda Spadavecchia, the backlash he faced and how misconduct should be investigated
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NewsGuidelines on how to be a scientific sleuth released
Creators of collection want all working scientists to get involved in post-publication review
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OpinionAre you fooling yourself?
Charles Piller’s Doctored and the reality of falsehoods in science
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NewsSuperconductivity researcher at centre of misconduct scandal departs University of Rochester
Several of Ranga Dias’s papers have been retracted amid data manipulation allegations
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NewsChemist found to have falsified data in 42 papers has notched up 13 retractions so far
Investigating committee at Japanese institute found senior scientist Naohiro Kameta solely responsible for the misconduct
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NewsOpen letter from fraud sleuths raises concerns over research integrity at Scientific Reports
Springer Nature singled out over ‘seriously flawed’ peer review in journal
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NewsWidespread signs of paper milling discovered in materials science and engineering papers
Metadata in images of scanning electron microscopes doesn’t match the make and model of the instrument in thousands of papers
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NewsReview mills identified as a new form of peer-review fraud
Dozens of seemingly templated review reports show evidence of coercive citation
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NewsPublishing ethics committee warns of ‘problematic pollution’ of the scholarly record
Action required to tackle threat posed by paper mills
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NewsThe promise and pitfalls of generative AI for research
As ChatGPT co-authorship on research paper climbs, there are new concerns about the impact such AI tools could have on science
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NewsMaterials science journal withdraws 500 papers from fake conferences
Off-topic and nonsense articles in Materials Today: Proceedings may have come from conferences that never happened, created by paper mills to ‘launder’ publications
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NewsAI picks out fake science
Textual analysis tool flags manuscripts that may have come from paper mills
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NewsAI-generated images could make it almost impossible to detect fake papers
Some researchers worry that deepfake technology could be a new threat to scientific integrity, but others think traditional image manipulation is here to stay
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NewsChina sanctions hundreds of researchers following fraud investigation
Paper mills investigation results in funding bans and fines
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NewsIvermectin debacle exposes flaws in meta-analysis methodology
Health researchers warn that taking studies at face value is a luxury that they can no longer afford
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NewsPublishers grapple with an invisible foe as huge organised fraud hits scientific journals
Hundreds of fake research manuscripts from paper mills have flooded biochemical and biomedical journals in recent years. But how do you stop large-scale fraud barely anything is known about?
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BusinessRussian Covid-19 vaccine data raises questions
Suspected data manipulation or fabrication casts shadows over safety trial report for hastily-approved Sputnik V
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NewsJunior researchers less likely to blow the whistle on research misconduct
Fear of retribution and their precarious position may be holding them back